[sclug] Downgrading Debian?

[Simon Huggins]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:35:16AM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 08:33:12PM +0100, Will Dickson wrote:
> > I have a debian installation that I upgraded from stable to testing in
> > the usual way. However, I've since decided that this was the wrong
> > thing under the circumstances - not that there's anything wrong with
> > Testing per se, but the machine in question is a production server and
> > ought to be running Stable, as a matter of policy more than anything
> > else.
> You could sort of use pinning for this

I know this is rapidly becoming my thread.  I'm sorry.  I'll stop after
this honest.

In random discussions in #debian on irc.oftc.net I came across
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=880
which under the article has the description of how someone used pinning
to downgrade and the extra steps they needed to take.


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